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D. Menziesit have elongated stems, which become attached to 
surrounding herbs by means of the leaf-tentacles, an interesting 
secondary adaptation, the plant becoming a feeble climber. 
mong the small trees on the higher ground should be men- 
tioned the conifer Callitris quadrivalvis and the native “ cherry,” 
Exocarpus cupressiformis (Santalacex), the latter with cypress-like 
habit, and bearing a small cherry-stone-like nut on a berry-like 
swollen stalk. As Dr. Margaret Benson has shown, it is semi- 
parasitic, deriving food by means of its root-suckers from roots of 
other plants. 
A large area at Belair on the slopes of the Mt. Lofty range 
has been set apart as a national reserve; here, among other 
interesting plants, it was a pleasure to find a little patch of 
Phylloglossum. 
sa (Pit 
Sporacez) was also a common shrub, and on the dry sandy soil 
were small plants of a blue-flowered Hrodium (E. eygnorum) and a 
tiny white composite, Brachycom2, and a small Galiwm (G. gemini- 
folium). Across the Murray, here a fine broad river, are salt-flats, 
the sparse vegetation of which includes Salicornia arbuscula and 
S. australis, Sueda fruticosa, Cotula coronopifolia, and a remark- 
able leafless Muehlenbeckia (Polygonacex), forming large bushes ; 
floating in the water-pools was Azolla. ie Si 
- The Botanical Gardens at Adelaide are small but prettily laid 
out; they contain some fine palms. A striking sight to the 
northerner was the rank growth of the Arum-lily, Rechardia, in 
full foxes round the ornamental water 
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C. 8. Sutton described the plant-formations of the environs of 
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